A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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DEMO'STHENES MASSALIO'TES, or ther particulars are not known. (Diog. Laert. v. 53,
MASSILIENSIS (4 Maaa-XCahlkurs), a native of 55, 56.) [L. S.]
Marseilles, and the author of several medical DEMO'XENUS. [DAMOXENUS.]
formulae preserved by Galen, must have lived in DEMUS (Auos). If the reading in Athenor before the first century after Christ, as he is aeus (xiv. p. 660) is correct, Demus was the auquoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion. (Gal. De Com- thor of an Atthis, of which the first book is there
pos. M1edicam. sec. Gen. v. 15. vol. xiii. p. 856.) quoted. But as Demus is not mentioned anyBy some persons he is supposed to be the same as where else, Casaubon proposed to change the name
Demosthenes Philalethes, which seems to be quite into KhxAr6sV os, who is well known to have
possible. He is sometimes called simply Massaliotes written an Atthis. If the name Demus is wrong,
or.Massiliensis. (Gal. 1. c. p. 855; Aetius, iv. 2. it would be safer to substitute A-rswv than KAet58, p.726.) See C.G.Kiihn, Additam. ad Elench. -rd836o os, as Demon wrote an Atthis, which conMedicor. Veter. a J. A. Fabricio, 4c., exhibitum, sisted of at least four books. [L. S.]
where he has collected all the fragments of Demos- DENDRI'TES (Aev/piLrsS), the god of the tree,
thenes that remain. [W. A. G.] a surname of Dionysus, which has the same import
DEMO'STHENES PHILALE'THES (As?- as Dasyllius, the giver of foliage. (Plut. Sympos.
po6Oefv77s 64 ilal6O?7s), a physician, who was one 5; Paus. i. 43. ~ 5.) [L. S.]
of the pupils of Alexander Philalethes, and be- DENDRI'TIS (AeYvpTTrS), the goddess of the
longed to the school of medicine founded by Hero- tree, occurs as a surname of Helen at Rhodes, and
philus. (Gal. De Differ. Puls. iv. 4. vol. viii. p. the following story is related to account for it.
727.) He probably lived about the beginning of After the death of Menelaus, Helen was driven
the Christian aera, and was especially celebrated from her home by two natural sons of her husband.
for his skill as an oculist. He wrote a work on She fled to Rhodes, and sought the protection of
the Pulse, which is quoted by Galen (1. c.), and her friend Polyxo, the widow of Tlepolemus. But
also one on Diseases of the Eyes, which appears to Polyxo bore Helen a grudge, since her own
have been extant in the middle ages, but of which husband Tlepolemus had fallen a victim in the
nothing now remains but some extracts preserved Trojan war. Accordingly, once while Helen was
by Aetius, Paulus Aegineta, and other later wri- bathing, Polyxo sent out her servants in the disters. [W. A. G.] guise of the Erinnyes, with the command to hang
DEMO'STRATUS (Amo'e-rpa~ros). 1. An Helen on a tree. For this reason the Rhodians
Athenian orator and demagogue, at whose propo- afterwards built a sanctuary to Helena Dendritis,
sition Alcibiades, Nicias, and Lamachus were ap- (Paus. iii. 19. ~ 10.) [L. S.]
pointed to command the Athenian expedition DENSUS, JU'LIUS, a man of equestrian rank
against Sicily. IIe was brought on the stage by of the time of Nero. In A. D. 56, he was acEupolis in his comedy entitled Boviy-?s. (Plut. cused of being too favourably disposed towards
Ale. 18, Nic. 12; Ruhnken, Hist. Crit. Or. Graec. Britannicus, but his accusers were not listened to.
p xlvi.) (Tacit. Ann. xiii. 10.) [L. S.]
2. The son of Aristophon, an ambassador from DENSUS, SEMPRO'NIUS, a most distinAthens to Sparta, is supposed by Ruhnken (1. c.) guished and noble-minded man of the time of the
to have been the grandson of the orator. (Xen. emperor Galba. He was centurion of a praetoIell. vi. 3. ~ 2.) rian cohort, and was commissioned by Galba to
3. A person in whose name Eupolis exhibited protect his adopted son Piso Licinianus, at the
his comedy Adv3'Avcos. (Ath. v. p. 216, d.) He time when the insurrection against Galba broke
is ranked, among the poets of the new comedy on out, A.D. 70. When the rebels approached to seek
the authority of Suidas (s. v. xdpas, A rudo'rparos and murder Piso, Densus rushed out against them
Aqoro7r0y): but here we ought probably to read with his sword drawn, and thus turned the attenTtwo'rpaTos, who is known as a poet of the new tion of the persecutors towards himself, so that
comedy. [TIMOSTRATUS.] (Meineke, Frag. Com. Piso had an opportunity of escaping, though he was
Graec. i. pp. 110, 500.) afterwards caught and put to death. (Tacit. Hlst.
4. A Roman senator, who wrote a work on fish- i. 43.) According to Dion Cassius (lxiv. 6) and
ing (dhAvL.ruca) in twenty-six books, one on aqua- Plutarch (Galb. 26) it was not Piso, but Galba
tic divination (rEp -r S iE'vpouv avrucis), and himself who was thus defended and protected by
other miscellaneous works connected with history. Densus, who fell during the struggle. [L. S.]
(Suid. s. v. Aato'aeparos; Aelian, N. A. xiii. 21, DENTA'TUS, M.' CU'RIUS (some writers call
xv. 4, 9, 19.) He is probably the same person him M. Curius Dentatus), the most celebrated
from whose history, meaning perhaps a natural among the Curii, is said to have derived his coghistory, Pliny quotes (H. N. xxxvii. 6), and the nomen Dentatus from the circumstance of
same also as Demostratus of Apameia, the second having been born with teeth in his mouth.
book of whose work "On Rivers" (7repi irorap.sv) (Plin. H. N. vii. 15.) Cicero (pro liMuren. 8)
Plutarch quotes. (De Fluv. 13; comp. Eudoc. p. calls him a homo novus, and it appears that he was
128; Phot. Bib. Cod. clxi.; Vossius, de Hist. of Sabine descent. (Cic. pro Sudla, 7; Schol.
Graec. pp. 427, 428, ed. Westermann.) [P. S.] Bob. p. 364 ed. Orelli.) The first office which
DEMO'TELES (A?/Eor7EAX), one of the twelve Curius Dentatus is known to have held was that
authors, who according to Pliny (H. N. xxxvi. of tribune of the people, in which he distinguished
12) had written on the pyramids, but is other- himself by his opposition to Appius Claudius the
wise unknown. [L. S.] Blind, who while presiding as interrex at the elecDEMOTI'MUS (Avridos), an Athenian and tion of the consuls, refused, in defiance of the
intimate friend of Theophrastus, with whom he law, "to accept any votes for plebeian candidates.
devoted himself to the study of philosophy. Theo- Curius Dentatus then compelled the senate to
phrastus in his will bequeathed to him a house, make a decree by which any legal election was
and appointed him one of his executors; but fur- sanctioned beforehand. (Cic. Brut. 14; Aurel.